Top 5 Vanilla WoW Zones

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The original game of WoW had some of the best and most memorable zones in video game history. What are your top 5 areas in WoW? Can include instances.

Mine are (in no particular order):

  1. Eastern Plaguelands

  2. Arathi Highlands

  3. Ashenvale

  4. Feralas

  5. Teldrassil

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  1. The Barrens
  2. The Crossroads
  3. Ratchet
  4. The Barrens
  5. The Gold Road

I survived Barrens chat 2004.

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This is the true list.

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  1. Barrens
  2. Razor Hill
  3. Barrens again just to make sure.
  4. Searing Gorge.
  5. Hinterlands.
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I always enjoyed the transition from Tirisfal to Western Plaguelands to Eastern Plaguelands. Things get more and more corrupted as you go.

But aside from that, I love the Searing Gorge and Burning Stepps with Blackrock Mountain in between. Itā€™s a very flavorful zone.

But for a top 5, I have to pick the undead areas:

  1. Eastern Plaguelands
  2. Western Plaguelands
  3. Tirisfal Glades
  4. Silverpine Forest
  5. Hillsbrad Foothills
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I primarily played Horde in Vanilla, but hereā€™s my top 5:

-Elwynn Forest
Thereā€™s something about this zone that just makes me happy to start a new human character.

-Duskwood
I like spooky haunted forest settings, so this was always one of my favorite zones, especially around Halloween.

-Silverpine Forest
Iā€™m not sure why I like this zone so much, since itā€™s fairly plain and lacks the historical importance of HIllsbrad (TM vs SS), and the starting zone nostalgia of Tirisfal Glades. But I spent a lot of time in this zone during the early months of Vanilla leveling multiple undead characters, so it always stuck with me.

-Winterspring
I always liked the snowy mountain setting and quest density, plus I usually saved this zone for hitting level 60. Every time I entered Winterspring I knew I was in the home stretch.

-Alterac Valley
I miss the days of hours / days long battles because I always enjoyed hanging out in this zone. 99% of the time I was PvPing, but every once in a while I would take a little time to relax and enjoy the scenery and explore.

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  1. teledrassil: I loved the lore and feel
  2. Astranaar: the world really started to get big to me here. First encounters with horde here :slight_smile:
  3. WPL: loved the lore.
  4. STV.
  5. Duskwood
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STV
Elwynn Forest
Loch Modan
Winterspring
Barrens

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No particular order:

  1. Duskwood. The ambiance and quests and several Dangerous mobs make it a very wonderful zone to enjoy early levels.
  2. Azshara. Demons and Naga. Coastlines, Clifflines, and ruins. I really enjoyed this area.
    3.Stranglethorn Vale. PvP battles, ganking, being ganked. Just the general feeling of being unsafe while you tried to get things done. Wide range of quests and the first zone to me where they successfully push alliance and horde together for real conflict.
  3. Ungoro crater. Love the feeling of the zone. It is again where some big baddies roam that could mess up your day if you didnā€™t keep your head on a swivel.
  4. Western Plaguelands. I enjoyed this zone and having that mad scourge war zone of Andorhal.
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The Barrens
Stone Talon Mountains
Ungoro Crater
Winterspring
Ashenvale Forest

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  1. Azshara
  2. Unā€™goro Crater
  3. Winterspring
  4. Feralas
  5. Tanaris
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  1. Winterspring - the single best zone in the game. Even in bfa itā€™s the best.

  2. Barrens - that chat.

  3. Duskwood - the music is amazing.

  4. Hillsbrad - loved the full guild on guild pvp battles that happened.

  5. Elwynn - mainly cause i mained a human paladin back in vanilla.

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Winterspring
Western Plaguelands
Alterac Valley
Hinterlands
Azshara

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  1. Tirisfal Glades
  2. Hillsbrad (lots of lowbie pvp)
  3. STV
  4. Ashenvale
  5. Western Plaguelands

I really liked this zones because they felt very ā€œcompleteā€ from a sense of the lore, quests, type of mobs and how the zone looked.

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My top 5

Westfall - this is a favorite being I was on my 1st character and it was the zone I was in when I was just really getting into the game
Duskwood - I love the spooky atmosphere and the fun of seeing Stiches demolish everyone on the road
Blackrock Depths - I love the huge sprawling epic feel of this dungeon
Alterac Valley - In itā€™s earlier pre 1.12 state where a battle could go on for days It made it really feel like a siege!
Winterspring - Just because itā€™s a beautiful winter wonderland.

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Tough to pick just 5! Will say after spending the early levels in snow I really appreciated warmer zones later:

1-Hinterlands ā€˜hey warm Dwarves!ā€™
2-WPL/EPL for the lore as a Paladin
3-Tanaris/Desolace
4-Unā€™Goro cuz dinosaurs
5-Felwood

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  • Azshara - beautiful zone with a ton of neat little areas.
  • Duskwood - atmosphere is great. Also, the most heart breaking quest text Iā€™ve encountered.
  • Eastern Plaguelands - for those who felt the Western Plaguelands were too cheerful. Finding outposts in this zone always made me unconsciously breath a sigh of relief.
  • Stormwind - if I had to buy a home in Azeroth, Iā€™d want to live here.
  • Mulgore - if I were homeless in Azeroth, Iā€™d want to live here.
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  1. Tirisfal - Iā€™ve leveled so many Undead and the music and atmosphere in this zone is so haunting and perfect.
  2. Hillsbrad - World PvP, what else do you need?
  3. STV - I TRULY felt ā€œlost in a jungleā€ here. Danger around every corner (enemy faction included), a fun aesthetic, Nesingwary shenanigans.
  4. Unā€™Goro - Easter Eggs! An incredibly fun, self-contained hub. Aggroing and getting chased by a T Rex was such sheer terror.
  5. Eastern Plaguelands - It felt like Dark Souls before Dark Souls existed. Another creepy zone with a very real sense of danger.

Vanilla had better zones than any expansion ever. And because the gameplay was so slow, you really got to dig into these zones, spend a ton of time in them, and understand them.

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As someone that generally rolls undead, I like fighting enemies I can eat.
Hillsbrad (farmers, bandits)
Tanaris (ogres, pirates)
Arathi (farmers, bandits)
Stranglethorn (trolls, pirates)
I donā€™t grind on beasts because you canā€™t eat those.

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Silverpine, Wetlands, STVā€¦